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2680:. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press.
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2782:Gardiner, Robert; Gray, Randal, eds. (1985).
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2290:Mearns and White, pp. 195–96
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2657:Breyer, Siegfried (1973).
2557:Parshall and Tully, p. 476
2438:. British Listed Buildings
1982:Stephen, pp. 70–80, 104–14
1831:List of sunken battleships
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2009:Burt, pp. 282–83, 297–98
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3320:Lists of battlecruisers
3084:Tarrant, V. E. (1986).
2975:Rohwer, Jurgen (2005).
2695:Campbell, John (1998).
1284:Australian War Memorial
960:Scuttled battlecruisers
558:naval base was attacked
395:Battle of the Coral Sea
328:Washington Naval Treaty
221:German battleship
143:after the war and one,
134:German battleship
101:Washington Naval Treaty
62:, at the same time the
2956:Roberts, John (1997).
2828:Gröner, Erich (1990).
2714:Denlay, Kevin (2007).
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1952:Breyer, pp. 48–49
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2895:. London: Channel 4.
2676:Burt, R. A. (2012) .
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1906:) and "battleships" (
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2243:Tarrant 2001, p. 298
2191:Tarrant 1986, p. 114
1973:Tarrant 2001, p. 249
1961:Campbell, pp. 368–69
1893:), "armored ships" (
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1166:Imperial German Navy
1134:Laboe Naval Memorial
1117:Imperial German Navy
1069:Imperial German Navy
1016:Imperial German Navy
802:Imperial German Navy
536:Battle of Leyte Gulf
413:Operation Crossroads
164:Imperial German Navy
3325:Lists of shipwrecks
2813:. Nantes: Marines.
2716:"Expedition Job 74"
2477:Sears, in Stevens,
2215:Imperial War Museum
2164:Roberts, pp. 122–23
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2086:. Combinedfleet.com
2060:. Combinedfleet.com
1230:Ship's bell in the
1132:Ship's bell in the
2857:: Humanity Books.
2761:Fry, John (1996).
1934:Gröner, pp. 31, 60
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1864:-class battleships
1781:United States Navy
1464:United States Navy
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3076:978-1-84603-280-6
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2925:978-1-57488-924-6
2864:978-1-57392-286-9
2855:Amherst, New York
2839:978-0-87021-790-6
2793:978-0-87021-907-8
2687:978-1-59114-052-8
2668:978-0-385-07247-2
2499:Duncan, pp. 93–95
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